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Archive for April, 2009

Is this a joke? It’s gotta be a joke

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uh oh, maybe i should get out of product management

Yahoo to cut nearly 700 jobs after 1Q results fall - Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo product managers, in particular, appear to be among the most likely to receive pink slips, based on Bartz’s blunt comments.

“We sort of had one product management person for every three engineers, so we had a lot of people running around and telling people what to do, but nobody was doing anything,” Bartz said.

Twitter Using Google To Take Microsoft To Cleaners On Search Ad Deal (GOOG, MSFT)

So Twitter will do its best to persuade Microsoft that Google is willing to break the bank, and Google probably won’t do anything to discourage that spin. And, in the end, Microsoft will probably be the one to break the bank and “win” a big exclusive search deal with bad economics.

Marketing Lessons From ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop’ Movie - Advertising Age - Madison+Vine: News

But what’s really driving this year’s box-office surge? Three movies: Sony’s “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” Fox’s “Taken” and Universal’s “Fast and Furious” have grossed more than $350 million combined, surprising analysts and outperforming even movie-mogul expectations.